Given India’s recent foreign policy posturing, one might be tempted to conclude that India is distancing itself from the US and is trying to be a part of a new power alignment of emerging states. New Delhi announced last week that it has rejected bids by US companies seeking a $12 billion fighter jet contract, leaving only European defence contractors in the running. At the United Nations, India scuttled attempts by the western powers to strongly condemn the Syrian government for its attacks on protestors, merely asking the Security Council to urge all sides to abjure violence and seek a peaceful resolution. And before this there was India’s abstention on Libya at the Security Council as well as the much touted BRICS summit.